Samuel Butler (novelist) Quote

Every idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it; ideas are just as mortal and just as immortal as organized beings are.


The Note-books of Samuel Butler (p. 108), A. C. Fifield. 1913


Every idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it; ideas are just as mortal and just as immortal as organized beings are.

Every idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it; ideas are just as mortal and just as immortal as organized beings are.

Every idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it; ideas are just as mortal and just as immortal as organized beings are.

Every idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it; ideas are just as mortal and just as immortal as organized beings are.